Pressure mounts on the Olympics over sweatshops.

Organisations across the world are challenging the Olympics over their use of sweatshops.

This week, pressure has been mounting on the Olympics over their use of sweatshops.

Various activist groups have been drawing attention to how workers have been exploited in aid of the 2012 sporting event.

Former People & Planet intern, Fiona Ranford, led a demonstration with UK Feminista and War on Want against Nike’s abuse of women in its supply chains. In Sri Lanka, workers led a demonstration against the labour rights violations they’d suffered to make Olympics garments.

Some of the stories of exploitation that have been coming out are horrific. We hear about workers being killed and brutalised; denied the most basic rights. It’s great to see this issue is finally coming back onto the agenda.